I was expecting the signals to be booming in on 10 meters these morning but sigs were just so-so and I did not hear anything to the Middle East.

About the only thing I can think of is we are in the middle of winter and the hours of daylight are very low.

I talked to a friend on the phone today who primarily works 20 and he said conditions were not really good.

Go figure!

73,

Chris/NU1O

I have not heard any middle east countries in a couple of months. Abdul la and the Arabian net are usually strong but nothing. I did hear Japan very weak on 17M but that's at a time when I should be hearing them loud and clear.

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I have not heard any middle east countries in a couple of months. Abdul la and the Arabian net are usually strong but nothing. I did hear Japan very weak on 17M but that's at a time when I should be hearing them loud and clear.

Are you talking about 9K2GS? If you are, I think it's due to the seasonal change and the short days in the Northern Hemisphere. I am not a real close friend so I don't check in with Abdallah every night like some do but about once a month I throw in my call just to check on how things are. From about March to September I see a few contacts per month but at this time of the year 20 is very quiet by about 7 PM and Abdallah does not get on until around 10 or 11 EST.

I have some decade old contacts in the log with 9K2GS when I worked him long path on 20 in my morning but his operating habits have changed since those QSOs. He is almost strictly a morning guy - his time - these days.

I agree that the conditions seem poor for a SFI of 170. However, I did observe something interesting at 1325 UTC this morning on 17M (about 30 minutes before my local sunrise). I was working a very weak Russian station (RST 519). No other signals were showing up on the spectrum scope on my IC-7700. Then, suddenly as if a switch had been thrown signals appeared across the band with signal strengths up to 599. I have never witnessed such a phenomenon before. My rig appears to be working fine and it seems what I observed was an actual propagation effect.

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